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Coordinated ATM attack nets $9 million
Up to 130 ATM machines in 49 cities worldwide were used in a coordinated attack on RBS Worldpay, a global payments services company. Within a 30 minute period on November 8th, 2008, the company lost an estimated $9 million dollars due to fraudulent ATM transactions.
While the company first disclosed the loss in November, the ambitious [...]
February 4, 2009
Tags: ATM, banking, cybercrime, data loss, Defense in Depth, RBS Worldpay, Robert Vamosi, security Posted in: ATM machines, Defense in Depth, RBS Worldpay, Robert Vamosi, cybercrime, data loss 
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Report: Data breaches up in 2008
In a report out today from the ID Theft Resource Center (ITRC), the number of data breaches increased 46% in 2008 over the previous year.
Of the five categories monitored by ITRC, only Educational and Military showed a decrease in the last year. Up were Business (reporting the most with 36% of the breaches), [...]
January 5, 2009
Posted in: Defense in Depth, ID Theft Resource Center, ID fraud, Robert Vamosi, data breach, data loss, data loss prevention, dlp, identity fraud, identity theft, linda foley, skimming No Comments
